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Spring, 2009 Event Schedule
Essay Contest for High School Students (Grades 9-12)
Theme: “Remembering the Holocaust, Standing Up to Genocide”
Submission deadline: March 13, 2009
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Holocaust Remembrance Day Ceremony/
Yom Ha’Shoah Commemoration
April 21, 7:00 p.m., Waterloo Center for the Arts
Holocaust Remembrance Day ceremony, organized in collaboration with the Sons of Jacob Synagogue in Waterloo. The ceremony will involve participants of different faiths and backgrounds. We will light candles to pay tribute to the victims, liberators and rescuers of the Holocaust as well as victims of other genocides. The event is free and open to the public. Sponsored by the Sons of Jacob Synagogue of Waterloo, UNI Holocaust and Genocide Education Program, Cedar Valley Interfaith Council, and the UNI College of Humanities and Fine Arts.
Norman Cohn Family Holocaust Remembrance And
Education Lecture
April 22, 7:00 p.m., Bengtson Auditorium in Russell Hall
“The Holocaust and Contemporary Ethics: Legal, Religious, Political and Medical Ethical Implications of the Holocaust” by Dr. Michael Berenbaum, distinguished Holocaust scholar; former director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Research Institute, and former President of the Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation. The event is free and open to the public. With generous support by Norman Cohn and family. Also sponsored by the UNI College of Humanities and Fine Arts and the UNI Faculty Senate Speakers Fund.
